Archive for December, 2007

A present!
December 29, 2007

Bumpy jacket, French Connection UKI can’t find it on the US site, but I assure you my mother-in-law bought it at fcuk (here’s hoping their acronym doesn’t bring me the wrong kind of traffic) in Pasadena in black for my Christmas present – I told you she had great taste! This is a great item [...]

Wishful Shopping: J. Crew’s Post-Christmas Sale
December 27, 2007

J. Crew is taking an extra 20% off their sale items right now. My favorite things:

Jackie cardigan in ocean, J. Crew I already own this in brown, and I wouldn’t turn down this sweater in any color, but this blue is my favorite. If you’re a twinset person, there is also a matching shell.

Vintage [...]

More to love from Etsy
December 21, 2007

Etsy is one of those sites you can spend hours and hours on. There are soooo many pretty things, and it’s exciting to find things that are handmade and original. Despite how much I love my favorite mall stores (ATL and I are BFFs, remember?) it’s still nice to have a few pieces that make [...]

And by "no shopping" I meant…
December 18, 2007

Well, shopping. For shoes. BUT I have a litany of excellent excuses.

1) I was at Nordstrom Rack looking for presents for other people, and being entirely unsuccessful at finding them. It would be a shame to fight so hard for a parking spot and not buy anything.

2) These were originally $225 shoes, and [...]

Resurrection!
December 17, 2007

No, this isn’t a religious post, but it is about two different resurrections.
First, my laptop. I dropped it. Really, it slid off my lap from about a foot and a half up and landed on carpet, but it appeared to be a fatal blow – some black screen appeared saying the operating system could not [...]